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Spoon Thumb
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Posted - 2007.11.28 01:49:00 -
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I'm thinking Arabs rather than Islam here (very important difference.)
If you look at the Arab world, arguably some of the most important cultural and technological developments have historically come from the Arab world and wider middle east, but again debatable, one could say that the output has declined in recent years or perhaps the western world has moved on and developed at a faster pace?
That aside there are many striking similarities to modern Arab countries and culture as to Amarrian. Deeply religious and conservative in many quarters and certainly distinctly culturally apart from the western world but not entirely immune to foriegn influence. And I have a perception here (and must say this is just the way I see it through the media and people I meet) of a people both highly practical and amenable on one side and zealous and fanatical (in an extreme minority) on the other
Caste system no direct parallel like in say India, or like some rigid class system, but there certainly is a heriarchy in somewhere like Saudi Arabia, or Dubai where the poor Bangladeshi migrant workers are really at the bottom of the ladder, and the Sheiks at the top
One area where I'd definitely note a difference and use a different analogy is in the economy. Amarr feels like the old Russia of the early 1990's, laden with beaurocracy and inefficiency and with a population who don't really understand "business" (Nice to see that slowly changing, although recent trips to Russia and Ukraine (the latter especially) seem to indicate that the older generations don't quite get the whole entrepreneurial thing). But at the same time a vast land with near limitless natural resource waiting to be tapped
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Posted - 2007.11.29 16:26:00 -
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wasn't so much as trying to say "Amarrians evolved from Arabs or Persians" but simply saying there are paralells, just as in today's world there are parallels between otherwise completely unrelated cultures and societies.
Hence why I think it is dangerous to imply one leads from/to another, and also where I pointed out the similarities are with a different time and place on the economic front.
And they are similarities. Like Amarr Empire doesn't have the problems of organised crime and gansterism that Russia and much of the former USSR did at the end of communism.
Also the Gallente don't have a work ethic and social security model anything like the French, nor such lax laws toward prostitution
What I'm merely trying to point out is that many people make an almost 1 to 1 correlation between Amarr and the Catholic church (of old), and although that isn't quite right, a similar comparison to some Arab cultures or those from around the middle east for that matter could easily be made
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Posted - 2007.12.04 23:39:00 -
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Yeah was just suggesting if people use Rome or Catholicism (sp?) to make comparisons, consider Arabs also?
Byzantine does fit quite nicely. Though we all know what happened to the Byzantine Empire ...
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